SchaferAutismReport: Debate Rages Over Need For Vaccines

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One is a former Playboy Playmate of the

Year. The other was once voted one of People magazine's most beautiful

people. They had a spat this fall. Actor Peet used the word

" parasites " to describe people aligned with Playmate

McCarthy. " She has a lot of nerve, " McCarthy huffed in response.

This would be a bit of celebrity fluff, except that Peet was criticizing

parents who don't vaccinate their children. McCarthy took up for them

because she's the most visible person who claims childhood vaccines cause

autism. As famous as they are, Peet and McCarthy are merely two combatants

in a national controversy. The nation's most trusted scientific

organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and

the American Academy of Pediatrics, have said there's no link between

childhood vaccines and autism.

Most parents believe them. More than 77

percent of children are completely vaccinated.

But the number of autism cases keeps

growing, and nobody can explain why. Some people believe vaccines must be

to blame. The Internet teems with frightening stories about the harm they

supposedly do, and McCarthy's latest book is a bestseller.

Parents are peppering doctors with questions

about vaccines, and some are opting out completely. Even a small dropoff in

vaccinations can have a big effect. Earlier this year, a rare outbreak of

measles was attributed partly to parents who refuse to vaccinate their

children.

This is no longer principally a debate about

science. The real question is whether Americans still believe in science —

or at least, in the nation's scientists.

Inside a small ranch house in Tampa's Town

'N Country neighborhood, 9-year-old Nikki Mc pulled at the

penny-sized raw patch on her nose. Her mother — always alert to Nikki's

attempts to hurt herself — straddled the child on the family room floor,

keeping her hands from the scab. Nikki wailed.

" Are you going to be a good girl? "

Janet Mc asked.

Eventually, Nikki relaxed. She has worse

moments — sometimes she bangs her head on the floor — but for her mother,

every day is a trial.

Eight years ago, two of Janet's triplets,

Nikki and Dougie, were diagnosed with autism, a dis­order marked by

difficulties communicating and interacting. She blames vaccines. After

their 15-month shots, she said, the children began to change.

She doesn't know how vaccines hurt them, and

she is not sure why the third triplet, , wasn't affected. But she is so

certain vaccines are harmful that she warns neighbors and friends not to

vaccinate.

" I could just kill somebody who did

this to my

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